Dawn Farm Addiction and Recovery Education Series

Chemical Dependency and the Family - October 2012

“Chemical Dependency and the Family” was presented on
Tuesday October 30, 2012; by Dr. Lynn Kleiman Malinoff, Ed.D. This
program provides an overview of how addiction impacts each member
of a family. The presenter will describe the roles and behaviors
that family members often acquire when living with addiction, ways
in which each family member is affected by addiction in the family,
and options for family members to obtain help to cope with
addiction in the family. Dr. Malinoff is the director of Eastern
Michigan Universities 21st Century Community Learning
Centers Bright Futures out-of-school-time programs. She has worked
with challenged youth and their families, teaching, counseling, and
leading for over 35 years in K-12 education as well as developing
and directing an adolescent outpatient program for substance
abusing youth and their families.
This program is part of the Dawn Farm Education Series, a FREE,
annual workshop series developed to provide accurate, helpful,
hopeful, practical, current information about chemical dependency,
recovery, family and related issues. The Education Series is
organized by Dawn Farm, a non-profit community of programs
providing a continuum of chemical dependency services. For
information, please see
http://www.dawnfarm.org/programs/education-series.

About the Podcast

The Dawn Farm Education Series is a FREE, annual workshop series developed to provide accurate, helpful, hopeful, practical, current information about chemical dependency, recovery, family and related issues; and to dispel the myths, misinformation, secrecy, shame and stigma that prevent chemically dependent individuals and their families from getting help and getting well.